Yeah that IS pretty bad. CPU power is way better than X1, but depending on integrated video, with only 4GB of ram and a 500GB (very low areal density = slowwww) is terrible.
They're savable at least. Replace HDD with 960GB SSD (about ~$100 each) and Nvidia 950 (about ~$140 each), combined with a 16GB DDR4 kit (about $65 each), and you'd go from horrible to blazing fast.
Someone needs to be fired for choosing that config, 4GB is inexcusable in 2016.